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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

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Fraud email example:

From: "Markus Bopp" <mark_boppi122@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: mark_bopp122@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 07:52:42 -0800
Subject: Classified-Proposition

Dear Friend,

MR. MARKUS BOPP

Postfach, 3001 Bern Switzerland

IMPERATIVE AND PRIVATE.

I am contacting you on business transfer of a huge sum of money from a deceased account.
Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried,
but I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day. We decided to contact you due
to the urgency of this transaction.

PROPOSITION;

We discovered an abandoned sum of US$32,500,000.00 (Thirty-Two Million Five Hundred
Thousand United States Dollars) in an account that Belongs to one of our foreign customers
who died along with his entire Family. Since his death, none of his next-of-kin or relations has
come forward to lay claims for this money as the heir. We cannot release the fund from his
account unless someone applies for claim as the next-of-kin to the deceased as indicated in
our banking guidelines.

Upon this discovery, we now seek your permission to have you stand as a next-of-kin
to the deceased as all documentations will be carefully worked out by us for the
(US$32,500,000.00) to be released in your favor as the beneficiary's next-of-kin. It may Interest
you to know that we have secured from the probate an order of madamus to locate any
of deceased beneficiaries.

Please acknowledge receipt of this message in acceptance of our mutual
Endeavour by furnishing me with the following;

1. Your name and address

2. Direct Telephone and fax numbers

These requirements will enable us file letter of claim to the appropriate Departments for necessary

approvals in your favor before the transfer can be made. We shall be compensating you with
40%on final conclusion of this project, while the rest shall be for us. If this proposal is acceptable by you,
please response immediately, I await your urgent response.

Best regards,

Mr. Markus Bopp

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